Improvement in devices for attaching legsto furniture



S. B. ALEXANDER. v Devices for Attaching Legs to Furniture..

No. 196,413. Patented Oct. 23, I877.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL B. ALEXANDER, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR ATTAGHING LEGS TO FURNITURE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,413, dated October 23, 1877; application filed July 7, 1877.

' thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to the mode of fastening legs for furniture; and it consists in a split, corrugated, and toothed ferrule, forming the joint between the leg and the frame, and in the combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, which fully illustrates my invention, Figure l is a side elevation of'my invention, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section 011 line as 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the corner-post. Fig. at is atop view of the leg; and Fig. 5 is a transverse section on line y y, Fig. 2.

A represents the corner-post of the frame for a table or other piece of furniture to which the leg B is to be secured.

The leg B is, in its upper end, provided with an upwardly-projecting screw, 0, located in the center of the said end, as SIlOW11,l7O be screwed into the under side of the framepost A. In the under side of this frame-post tending to the lower end to form teeth (1 (1 around the entire lower edge. In the top of the leg B is cut a circular groove or recess, to receive the projecting end of the sleeve or forrule D, leaving, as it were, a tenon, h, in the center, and from the center of this tenon projects the screw 0.

In fastening the leg to the frame-post, the legis turned so as to screw in the screw 0, and at the same time the sleeve or ferrule D enters the recess for it, and, if necessary, cuts its way into the wood, and forms a double bearing, making the leg firm and solid to the frame.

In case of the wood shrinking, the sleeve or ferrule, being split or slotted, as described, will contract and close tightly on the tenon 71, making at all times a firm and durable bearing.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire :to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with the part A and the leg B, the split sleeve or ferrule D, formed with the longitudinal corrugations b and teeth (I, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The combination of the frame A, the leg B, formed with the tenon h, and provided with the screw 0, and the split, corrugated, and toothed sleeve or ferrule D, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL B. ALEXANDER. Witnesses:

J. S. SHOWALTER, FRED. ScHUcHMAN. 

